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<span class=large>THE BOOK OF JACOB</span><br/> THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
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CHAPTER 3
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The pure in heart receive the pleasing word of God—Lamanite righteousness exceeds that of Nephites—Jacob warns against fornication, lasciviousness, and every sin.  Between 544 and 421 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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But</span> behold, I, Jacob, would speak unto you that are pure in heart.  Look unto God with firmness of mind, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 32: 8.">pray</a> unto him with exceeding faith, and he will <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Comfort; TG Consolation; TG Pure.">console</a> you in your <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/3/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Affliction.">afflictions</a>, and he will plead your cause, and send down <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/3/1d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Deliverance; TG Protection, Divine.">justice</a> upon those who seek your destruction.
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O all ye that are pure in heart, lift up your heads and receive the pleasing word of God, and feast upon his <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Love of.">love</a>; for ye may, if your <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Steadfastness.">minds</a> are <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/3/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Alma 57: 27.">firm</a>, forever.
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But, wo, wo, unto you that are not pure in heart, that are filthy this day before God; for except ye repent the land is <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Curse of.">cursed</a> for your sakes; and the Lamanites, which are not <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Filthiness.">filthy</a> like unto you, nevertheless they are <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/3/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Ne. 12: 23.">cursed</a> with a sore cursing, shall scourge you even unto destruction.
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And the time speedily cometh, that except ye repent they shall possess the land of your inheritance, and the Lord God will <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Omni 1: 12 (5-7, 12-13).">lead</a> away the righteous out from among you.
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Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins, are more righteous than you; for they have not <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jacob 2: 35.">forgotten</a> the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto our father—that they should have save it were <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jacob 2: 27.">one</a> wife, and <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/3/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mosiah 11: 2 (2-14); Ether 10: 5.">concubines</a> they should have none, and there should not be <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/3/5d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Chastity.">whoredoms</a> committed among them.
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And now, this commandment they observe to keep; wherefore, because of this observance, in keeping this commandment, the Lord God will not destroy them, but will be <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 13: 31; 2 Ne. 4: 7; 2 Ne. 10: 18 (18-19); Hel. 15: 12 (10-17); Morm. 5: 20 (20-21).">merciful</a> unto them; and one day they shall <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 15: 14 (13-18); 1 Ne. 22: 8.">become</a> a blessed people.
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Behold, their <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Husbands.">husbands</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within; TG Marriage, Continuing Courtship in.">love</a> their <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/3/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Wives.">wives</a>, and their wives love their husbands; and their husbands and their wives love their children; and their <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/3/7d" mark="d" type="C" title="D&C 3: 18; TG Unbelief, Unbelievers.">unbelief</a> and their hatred towards you is because of the iniquity of their fathers; wherefore, how much better are you than they, in the sight of your great Creator?
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O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall repent of your sins that their skins will be <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 2: 15.">whiter</a> than yours, when ye shall be brought with them before the throne of God.
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Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, which is the word of God, that ye <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reviling.">revile</a> no more against them because of the darkness of their skins; neither shall ye revile against them because of their filthiness; but ye shall remember your own filthiness, and remember that their filthiness came because of their fathers.
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Wherefore, ye shall remember your <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Children, Responsibilities toward; TG Family, Love within.">children</a>, how that ye have grieved their hearts because of the <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Example.">example</a> that ye have set before them; and also, remember that ye may, because of your filthiness, bring your children unto destruction, and their sins be heaped upon your heads at the last day.
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O my brethren, hearken unto my words; <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apathy.">arouse</a> the faculties of your souls; shake yourselves that ye may <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 21; Alma 5: 7 (6-7).">awake</a> from the slumber of death; and loose yourselves from the pains of <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/3/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Hell.">hell</a> that ye may not become <sup>d</sup><a href="jacob/3/11d" mark="d" type="C" title="2 Ne. 9: 9 (8-9); TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">angels</a> to the devil, to be cast into that lake of fire and brimstone which is the second <sup>e</sup><a href="jacob/3/11e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Death, Spiritual, Second.">death</a>.
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And now I, Jacob, spake many more things unto the people of Nephi, <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Warnings.">warning</a> them against <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Fornication.">fornication</a> and <sup>c</sup><a href="jacob/3/12c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Lust.">lasciviousness</a>, and every kind of sin, telling them the awful consequences of them.
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And a hundredth part of the proceedings of this people, which now began to be numerous, cannot be written upon <sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jacob 1: 1 (1-4); Jacob 4: 1 (1-4).">these</a> plates; but many of their proceedings are written upon the <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jarom 1: 14.">larger</a> plates, and their wars, and their contentions, and the reigns of their kings.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="jacob/3/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jarom 1: 2 (1-2).">These</a> plates are called the plates of Jacob, and they were <sup>b</sup><a href="jacob/3/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 19: 2 (2-3).">made</a> by the hand of Nephi.  And I make an end of speaking these words.
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